Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-04

Of large Jug h!gt In his hand, and poured
from 10 some stsasaine fluid, which fell
accurately into tho funnel
Tho third sculpture represented the burial
Of the deceased There he was, stiff and cold,
clothed In a linen robe, and laid out on q
stone slab such as had slept upon at our
first sojourning place. At his head and foct
burned lamp, and by his side were placed
several Of the beautiful painted vases that
have described, which wero probably sup
posed to DO full Of provisions. The little
chamber was crowded with mournets, and
with musicians playing on sort Of Tyre,
while near the foot Of the corpse stood man
with sheet, with which he wEs preparing 10
cover II from view.
These sculptures, looked at merely as works
of art, were so remarkable that make no
apology for describing them rather fully.
They struck me also as being Of surprising
interest as representing, probably with
studious accuracy, tho last rites Of the
dead as practiced among ON utterly
lost people, and oven then thought
how enyious soma antiquarian friends Of my
own at Cambridge would DO If ever got an
opportunity of describing these wonderful TO
mains to them. Probably they would say
that | was exaggerating notwithstanding
that every page Of this history must bear so
much internal evidence of It's truth that it
would obviously have been quito impossible
for me TO have invented it.
To return AS soon as had hastily exam
ined these sculptures, which think omitted
TO mention were executed in relief, we sat
down to o very excellent meal of boiled
goats flesh, fresh milk and cakes made Of
meal, the whole being served upon clean
wooden plat srs.
When we lad eaten VIC returned TO SEQ how
poor Leo was getting on, Billali saying that
no must now wait upon She and her COM
mands. On reaching Leo's room wo found
the poor boy in very bad way. He had
woke up from his torpor and was altogether
Off his head, babbling about some boat race
on tho Cam, and was inclined to be violent.
Indeed, when we entered the room Ustane
was holding him down. / spoke to him, and
my voice seemed to soothe him; ut any rate
he grew much queter and was persuaded to
swallow dose OF quinine.
l had been sitting with him for an hour,
perhaps-at nny rate know that it was get
ting SO dark that could only just make out
his head lying like CLEAN of gold upon the
pillow wo had extenporized out of bag COW
cred with blanket-when suddenly Bilali ar
lrived with an dir Of great Importance and in
formed me that Sho herself had deigned to
express wish to see mean honor, he added,
accorded to but very few. think that he
was little Mortified at my cool way of taking
the honor, but the fact was ! did not feel
overwhelmed with gratitude of the prospect
Of seeing some savage, dusky queen, how.
ever absolute and mysterious she might
be, moro especially as my mind was
full of dear Leo, for whose life I began tc
have great fears. However, rose to follow
him, and as did so caught sight of some
thing bright lying on the floor, which
picked up. Perhaps the reader will remem
Der that with the potsherd In the casket wa.
composition scarabceus marked with rount
o, a large bird, and another curious hero
glyphic, the meaning of which signs Is %SuteI
sc Ra," or "Royal Son OF the Sun" Thi
scarab, which is very small one, Leo had In
sisted In having set In massive gold ring
Srch as Is very generally used for signets, AM
it was this very ring that / now picked up
lie had pulled 1t Off In the paroxysm of hi
fsver-at least l suppose so--and flung l
down upon therock floor Thinking that If
left it about 1t might get lost, slipped 1t OF
my own little finger and then followed Bill
lal, leaving Job and Ustane with Leo.
We passed down the passage, crossed tn
/ great aisle like cave, and came to the CORE
, spending passage on the other side, at til
, mouth Of which the guards stood like tw
statues. As we came they bowed their head
! in salutation, and then lifting their lon
/ spears, placed them transversely across thei
, foreheads, as the leaders of the troop that ha
,, met us had done with their ivory wands. w
/ stepped between them, and found ourselve
, in an exactly similar passage TO that whic
led to our own apartments, only this passag
was, comparatively speaking Brilliant
lighted. A few PAGES down it We were me
!. by four mutes-two men and two women
> who bowed low and then arranged then
selves, the women in front of and the me
, behind us, and in this order VIC continue
our procession past several doorways hun
with curtains similar to those leading to on
a own quarters, and which afterward foun
i opened out into chambers occupied by IL
q mutes who attended on She. A few pact
q moro, and we came to another doorway, fa
4 ing US, and not to our left like the other
=, which seemed to mark the termination
i, tho passage Here two more white or rattle
a yellow, robed guards were standing, oil
: they two bowed, saluted and let us pa
A through heavy curtains into a great ant
n chamber, quite forty feet long by as man
, wide, in which some eight or ten womel
. most Of Thorn young and handsome with We
. lowish hair, sat on cushions, working wit
! ivory needles ut what had the appearance
4 being embroidery frames These wome
q were also deaf and dumb. At the furth,
/. end Of this great lamplit apartment was Al
a other doorway, closed in with heavy Orient,
a looking curtains, quite unlike those th.
q hung before the doors of our own appar
n ments, and here stood two particularly han,
a some girl mutes, their heads bowed upo
q their bosoms and their hands crossed In q
). attitude Of the humblest submission. As "
"a came up they each stretched out an arm on
a drew back the curtains. Thersupon Billa
! did curious thiHg Down be went, thi
o venerable looking old gentleman--for Billa
/. "A a gentleman at the bottom--down ont
i. his hands and knees, and in this undlgnife
n position, with his long white beard trailir
y on the ground, he began to creep into Il
o apartment beyond. l followed him, walkin
q on my feet in the usual fashion. Lookir
Q over his shoulder, he perceived it.
!. "Down, my son; down, my Baboon; dow
Z on thy hands and knees. We enter the pre-